Authorities say a 29-year-old man towed a trailer full of explosives into a suburban Dallas police station’s parking lot on Tuesday, then set fire to his pick-up truck and began shooting at the building in an apparent attempt to lure people outside to kill them.
McKinney police Chief Doug Kowalski said Patrick Gray Sharp died Tuesday after a shootout with officers, but it’s unclear whether he was killed by an officer’s bullet or one of his own.
No one else was hurt during the Tuesday morning clash.
Kowalski said Sharp may have intended to lure people from the police station so he could shoot at them from a field across the street where he had taken position. He said he also may have intended to kill them by blowing up the trailer.